>On 06/23/2013 10:06 PM, deestroyer39 wrote:
>> Hi everyone, my name is Henry (the local Teen mentioned in Evan's
>> Report for June 22). I just wanted to introduce myself and I am very
>> excited to get started helping with the events and learning about
>> retro computing.
>
> New-blood geeks! Welcome!

Geek - The word geek is a slang term for odd or non-mainstream people,
with different connotations ranging from "a computer expert or
enthusiast" to "a person heavily interested in a hobby", with a
general pejorative meaning of "a peculiar or otherwise dislikable
person, especially one who is perceived to be overly intellectual."

I remember the hello world greeting. Anyway it s only an insult if you take it as an insult. Congratulations, younger members, this is how you learn to do

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, Jun 24, 2013

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I remember the "hello world" greeting. Anyway it's only an insult if you take it
as an insult. Congratulations, younger members, this is how you learn to do
the real engineering, by going back to the less complicated examples. You are
the ones that will make the really new computers because you understand the
fundamentals.
bs
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Thank you for your support of the vintage Computing environment well before I heard about your endeavor... My name is Ron Blechner affectionately known as Ron

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, Mar 3, 2014

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Thank you for your support of the vintage Computing environment well before I heard about your endeavor... My name is Ron Blechner affectionately known as Ron E B and I'm the newbie here. I live in South Jersey and have neveractually built a Vintage Computer but I think I may qualify as one of yous (yous is the South Jersey term for the southern YALL) since I've been integrating PDP systems since 1974. I worked for DEC for 17 years and then as a VMS consultant for a few more before landing a job at VARx. I work on ALL DECequipment and we in fact have service contracts and large customers.That's what we do. What I do is lots of integrations including PDP and MicroPDP/VAX systems. I still occasionally use micro fiche and a wire wrap tool(wrapper). I support a site that actively uses 8" floppies and largeclients that use other relics of the computing world. Some refer to my work as archaic and primitive, I guess that makes me a PRImate. Don't get me wrong, I do high end stuff too like Enterprise servers running VMS 8.3 (2012), but I'm proud to say that I just recently acquired a VMS 4.7 (1987) disk and have the two systems talking. I know kids with parents 25 years their senior that theycan't communicate with; GO FIGURE...I'm retiring in a few years so eventually I'm gonna pack up my toys andmove into my cave up in the Mts, where the NON ESD sensitive relicswill continue to function well into the future. I'll be using laptops assinkers in the fish holes I will frequent, and I'll drag a gutted 780 to plowthe fields. gotta love it...

RE: Ron E B barefoot in NJ...

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